Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball is a side-on demolition puzzle with a crane, a chain and a big iron ball. Each site has a condemned cartoon building made of crates, planks, barrels, old signs, tyres and foam blocks, and the pieces marked with a red cross have to end up below the demolition line. Drag the ball back, read the dotted swing arc and the power readout, and let it go. Everything is properly simulated, so stacks topple, barrels roll, tyres bounce, foam blocks squish and pop and dust rolls across the yard. Nothing shatters into sharp bits and nobody gets hurt.

Forty hand-built levels are spread over four sites: the Old Pier, where barrels roll into the sea, the Factory, where you move the crane along its rail, raise and lower the chain, swap between a light rubber ball and the heavy iron ball and lift pieces with a magnet, the Castle Set, where scenery slides across the stage so you have to time your release, and the Moon Base, where low gravity makes every swing float. Each level is quick and has three stars: bring the marked pieces down, do it within par swings, and knock the gold brick into the skip without touching the foreman's hut or the flowerbed. Some of the later sites are proper little brain teasers. Retry is instant and you can undo your last swing.

When the campaign is done, Demolition Derby builds endless seeded structures against a swing budget. Clear a site to earn more swings, keep going until you run out, and chase your high score, which is saved in your browser. Play with a mouse, the keyboard or touch.